entreat
verb (used with object)
to ask (a person) earnestly; beseech; implore; beg.
had entreated
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past perfectof entreat.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When asked if the company had entreated merchants to help it lobby against the legislation, Amazon said its email spoke for itself.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2021
In the past, milk marketers had entreated women as mothers to buy milk to ensure children’s health and safety, but dealers seeking skim milk buyers courted women as an adult market.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2014
I did not think it would offend you to gather a rose for one of my daughters, who had entreated me to bring her one home.
From Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various
Back at the castle Ruth had entreated that they need have only the family to breakfast with them.
From The Ranch Girls in Europe by Margaret Vandercook
Odin gazed with satisfaction upon the Vandals, who were loudly praying to him for victory; but Frigga watched the movements of the Winilers with more attention, because they had entreated her aid.
From Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
